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Moshiach (Messiah) lit. "annointed one". The final redeemer of the Jewish people from exile. Prophesied in Tanach, he will be a righteous human king descended patrilineally from King David. Identity still unknown, check back later.

To my basic knowledge, Jews were waiting, and are still waiting, for their Messiah, who were supposed to be a King (and die? then what?). Yet, Christians claim that Jesus was this Messiah. Even more, ...

I have heard growing up that many people around and before Jesus' time claimed to be the Messiah and/or claimed to be God, so Jesus had to "up the ante" and perform miracles. Who else has claimed to ...

The talmud on Nedarim 39b (English) lists seven things that were created before the world: torah, repentance, Gan Eden, Gehenna, the Throne of Glory, the Temple, and "the name of the mashiach". The ...

I went to a class about the various different Orthodox Jewish stances on the State of Israel. In the class, the Rabbi gave 5 different such stances.This ranged from #1 being religiously anti-State of ...

The rambam writes that one of the principles of faith is "Ani Maamin...B'Biyat Hamashiach, Af Al Pi Shehitmamya, Im Kol Zeh Achake Lo"
I beleive in the coming of the Messiah, even though he tarries, ...

We know that Moshiach will be a descendant of the House of David. We know for various reasons that David was not a kohen (he was the great-grandson of a convert; he was from the tribe of Judah). This ...

I read somewhere that, "That the war of Gog and Magog will be an internal, spiritual war, when everyone will have to battle to remain strong with his emunah, but it will not be a war fought with guns ...

This Shabbos we are reading the Torah portion of Vyahkeil-Pekudei. I read the following on a blog here and here:
Once, when the Alter Rebbe was the ba'al koreh, he read a verse slightly incorrectly. ...

Rabbi Yochanan tells us that
“אין בן דוד בא, אלא בדור שכולו זכאי, או כולו חייב”.
“the son of David (Mashiach) comes only in a generation that all the people have merits or in a generation that all are ...

Is it allowed to murder (any human from anywhere with any race and any belief) to fulfill the prophecy of relocation of all Jews to Israel, gathered from the four corners of the earth (Deut. 30:3-4; ...

There is a story where the Baal Shem Tov had a meditative experience and he "entered the chambers of Moshiach", and asked him "אימיתי קאתי מר" (When will the Master (you, Moshiach) come?), to which he ...

I seem to have learnt something a long time ago. In basic terms that after the coming of Moshiach and the resurrection of the dead there will be a time where we won't need our bodies and we will live ...

Since the Messiah should come from the line of David, I think it is necessary to know the family line of a person who claims to be the Messiah.
Do we still have the descendants of King David today?
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Presumably, the reason we have the Avoda in Mussaf is because of Uneshalma Parim Sefateinu - by saying (or learning) about sacrifices, it's as if we brought them. So if we're bringing real sacrifices ...

Maimonides theorized in his "Guide to the Perplexed" that Hashem did not favor korbanot (animal sacrifices) but allowed them due to the difficulty changing the nature of people. This is in the context ...

I know someone who has a shirt is in his closet which he designated for himself to wear when Moshiach comes.
How will we know when the yeshuah of HaKadosh Baruch Hu - in which he will bring Moshiach ...

Rav Neventzal’s sichos Bereishis sichah 36, explains that Dovid knew via ru’ach ha’kodesh that Moshiach was going to come from his relationship with Batsheva. I heard that this refers to the child who ...

In olam-ha-ba (the world to come) if righteous jews inherit the land of Israel and if the righteous gentiles shall rule with the righteous Yehudim
in olam-ha-ba (the messianic age) do the righteous ...

Basically I am looking for more information from neutral or sympathetic sources about Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman's recent statement saying something along the lines of it was too hard for Bnei Torah ...

Are there any sects or significant Rabbanim, other than those in Chabad, who hold that the late Lubavitcher Rebbe (now that he has passed away) is mashiach?
If there are those that do believe him to ...